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Should be as easy as throwing a rock.

2&3. Both pressure and shrapnel are deadly. For pressure, imagine a bubble machine blowing bubbles. You could poke them and they pop. A slight breeze could pop them. This is due to a pressure difference. When an explosive creates a pressure difference, the cells of your body are like the bubbles. They pop. Pressure will have a hard time getting around solid objects. A wall or a chair might be sufficient. Shrapnel will be more difficult. If this is truly a concern, I’d suggest having a “decorative” metal pot. If you could cover the grenade with it, that could potentially nullify its effect. Put as much matter and mass between you and the explosive as possible. If you have nothing available, lay on the ground with your head furthest from the grenade and your feet pointing towards it. Basically you would want to be able to draw a straight line from the grenade through your feet and out your head. Because that’s the direction the shrapnel will take.

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rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’d suggest having a “decorative” metal pot. If you could cover the grenade with it, that could potentially nullify its effect

this is just adding more metal to be thrown around

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- MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Okay, but what if you had a second larger metal pot to put over the first pot? Like a double paned metal pot, if you will.
  
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GimmeUrBelt@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Downvoted for showing wisdom and speaking truth. Fucking hate social media.

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akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Thanks! And, interesting! Wouldn’t the metal bucket/pot do some amplification of the pressure wave on its own by locking it in? Anyway, I imagined having such a pot, but I realized, I cannot know for how long the adversary has been releasing the safety grip and thus how long I have until detonation. It could blow up in my face as I am trying to cover it with the pot. I think I’d go with the second option, to hitting the deck with my head pointing away from the grenade.

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- meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  While the pot would suffer the brunt of the blast, that’s its purpose in this situation. It also has much more structural integrity than your squishy flesh. If the pot is destroyed, that likely means you are still alive.
  
  A few other thoughts came to mind, something like a weighted blanket or sand bags.
  
  Unfortunately, you’re correct that it would likely be impossible to know how long until it detonates. I don’t have any idea if you can tell that or if possible, how.
  
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  - Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Your suggestions aren’t just bad, they’re literally the worst things you can do. Surely you thought about this and found the worst ideas possible, then posted them as a troll. Putting a pot on the grenade puts you in so much more danger. And a weighted blanket?!?!!
    
    “Cover the grenade in more shrapnel” is all you keep saying.
    
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    BenLeMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    With sufficient reading comprehension you (and the five people upvoting your posting) would have noticed that nobody is claiming a grenade in a pot would be harmless. The claim was about removing the explosive from the grenade and detonating that inside the pot.
    
    While I have no evidence to support that claim I have seen someone putting live ammunition in a pot and making it cook off. That experiment clearly showed that cartridges are only really dangerous when used in a firearm. I expect the physics to be very much the same here.
    
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